Category Archives: Business Savvy

This post is the first in a series sharing my thoughts about the state of the wedding and portrait photography industry and how we can all work together to make it better. Have you noticed change within the photographic industry over the past several years, but don’t know exactly what happened? Has your business suffered […]

I contemplated telling you my personal burnout story, but I abandoned the idea for two reasons: It spans years, and you would no doubt become bored before getting to the important stuff, and It still brings up some negative emotions for me that I would rather pretend I’ve moved past. 😉 So, instead, I’m going […]

I just finished reading Josh Kaufman’s The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business and wanted to share some inspiration with you. The quote below is from B.C. Forbes, founder of Forbes magazine. I think it’s a good reminder for all of us: Your success depends on you. Your happiness depends on you. You have to […]

We received a Christmas gift from the Internal Revenue Service this year: one audit notice. When my mom — who receives and reviews our mail — started reading the letter to us, neither she nor we knew what it was. She skipped around as she usually does, first reading out our tax ID number, then […]

Almost a year ago now — before we even embarked on our travels — I wrote about putting my portrait and wedding photography business on hold. I was completely burned out and I wasn’t sure that I’d ever return to photography as a profession. While I was avoiding my camera like the plague, I did […]